The Raft of the Medusa Framing options:Stretched Canvas (ready to hang) as evidenced by the success

as evidenced by the success that his works obtained during his lifetime with critics and art lovers

prostrate by fatigue

But as a Renaissance man

which can be read as a metaphor for painting

The Raft of the Medusa Framing options:Stretched Canvas (ready to hang) as evidenced by the successThis work marks a turning point in history painting. It takes as its subject a controversial news item questioning the negligence of the government of Louis XVIII in the case of the sinking of a French frigate off the coast of Senegal in 1816. The castaways, abandoned to their fate, had engaged in acts of cannibalism. To paint it, the artist had reconstructed a real raft in his studio and illustrated corpses. In search of realism, Gricault does not